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Shageletic posted:This is the second worst terrorist attack since 9/11 now? On American soil, he claims. CalmDownMate posted:And what pray loving tell makes it any less valid? Because when you keep saying something is going to happen and it doesn't, you lose credibility. The fact that the presicency is the only office that matters to Democrats is a big reason why the D's have been utterly destroyed at every other level. There is a major party in crisis in America and it ain't the Republicans.
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Mitt Romney posted:There are no ideological differences within the GOP, it's all disagreement on tactics. It's not going to split. There are absolutely ideological differences - substantive ones around immigration in particular, and more identity politics-based ones around abortion. There's also a clear populist tone in Trump's approach that certainly isn't what any upper-cruster GOP type wants to hear.
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If there's a candidate that will make GOP voters stay home, it's Donald Trump. I've not heard any enthusiasm for him whatsoever.
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TyrantWD posted:Eventually the business wing is going to get sick of not getting many of the reduced regulations and taxes they've been lobbying for. The crazies have benefited from the relationship because it funded their campaigns, but the business guys have gotten very little out of it. That's why they'll embrace Hillary for the mild accelerationism of unsustainable capitalism instead of going whole hog down the RaHoWa rabbit hole.
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CalmDownMate posted:They already have done things about the Tea Party. They've ruined non-establishment politicians time and time again to ensure that Romney and McCain get the nomination. Tell me if if the share of Tea Party representation in congress and at the state level has been going up or down.
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zoux posted:Then what happened to all the moderate Republicans? Almost everyone I knew in college who was a Republican or "libertarian" either switched Democratic in 2008 and have stayed there because they were so embarrassed by Palin or gave up on politics altogether and pretty much stopped voting. They were all in their early-mid 20s in 2008 though.
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zoux posted:On American soil, he claims. No it doesn't. loving Ron Paul has been saying the US Economy is going to collapse since 1985 and when it finally did collapse he rode that wave to significant grassroot support. Saying something will eventually happen is not crazy. No one has ever said that it will happen immediately just that it will happen given certain circumstances and the circumstances have never looked clearer until now. We did not have any crazy Republican politicians leading the presidential polls before today. They were all safe establishment picks.
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i mean, why would anti-communists want to join up with an organization that bills itself as socialist?
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Ernie Muppari posted:i mean, why would anti-communists want to join up with an organization that bills itself as socialist?
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zoux posted:Tell me if if the share of Tea Party representation in congress and at the state level has been going up or down. You're ignoring the big power struggle there was between the Tea Party and the Establishment when they lost safe wins due to retards opening their mouths and the tea party PAC's of the party having whole loving mutinies with the police being called to clear them out of their offices by the pissed of people funding them. The resurgence of the tea party is a recent phenomenon following it's near collapse and the smothering dealt by the Establishment part of the party. You have a short memory.
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CalmDownMate posted:No it doesn't. loving Ron Paul has been saying the US Economy is going to collapse since 1985 and when it finally did collapse he rode that wave to significant grassroot support. Lol your standard of credibility is Ron Paul.
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CalmDownMate posted:You're ignoring the big power struggle there was between the Tea Party and the Establishment when they lost safe wins due to retards opening their mouths and the tea party PAC's of the party having whole loving mutinies with the police being called to clear them out of their offices by the pissed of people funding them. Recent examples, please.
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Top notch floor chart game from Chuck today.
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zoux posted:Lol your standard of credibility is Ron Paul. I'm using it as an example of someone who is not credible gaining support due to saying something is going to happen for a long time and it not happening until it finally did you nitwit.
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UberJew posted:If anybody gave a poo poo about what america stands for we wouldn't have a massive international torture program I thought you chaps shut that down due to the controversy, and replaced it with a campaign of "take no prisoners" drone strikes?
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zoux posted:Recent examples, please. http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2012/12/31/168196092/why-the-tea-party-stands-at-a-crossroads You have a very selective memory.
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Joementum posted:Top notch floor chart game from Chuck today. I disagree, I think that planes are guns.
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zoux posted:I've read this exact post probably 100 times. It was always going to take time. There was always going to be a breaking point where the sane Republicans wouldn't be able to ignore how extreme the party was getting, or dismiss it as a few bad apples. We were inching down that path before Trump, but he came along and skipped to the end. The establishment's ability to retain some semblance control of the party kept all sides together, but if Trump or Cruz win, and the party goes off the rails, the business wing will step back.
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"We're losing a lot of people because of the Internet and we have to do something. We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas closing that Internet up in some way. "Somebody will say, 'oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people… we've got to maybe do something with the Internet because they are recruiting by the thousands, they are leaving our country and then when they come back, we take them back." --guess who
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CalmDownMate posted:http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2012/12/31/168196092/why-the-tea-party-stands-at-a-crossroads Hey whats the date on that article?
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zoux posted:I disagree, I think that planes are guns. Mathematically, his chart would seem to imply that planes are guns, so you agree.
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TyrantWD posted:It was always going to take time. There was always going to be a breaking point where the sane Republicans wouldn't be able to ignore how extreme the party was getting, or dismiss it as a few bad apples. We were inching down that path before Trump, but he came along and skipped to the end. The establishment's ability to retain some semblance control of the party kept all sides together, but if Trump or Cruz win, and the party goes off the rails, the business wing will step back. Maybe, but I'm not giving creedence to such claims given how often they've been made in the past. Yes eventually the political landscape will change, as it must, and the Tea Party will go away or change into something different. This is not a prediction one should get credit for.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:"We're losing a lot of people because of the Internet and we have to do something. We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas closing that Internet up in some way. He'd be better off talking to Gore honestly.
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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:I thought you chaps shut that down due to the controversy, and replaced it with a campaign of "take no prisoners" drone strikes? we did for us, doing the torture in-house we still have extraordinary rendition to hand over prisoners to other governments to torture, which was how most of the torture happened the whole time anyway though yes we also just prefer to kill rather than capture as well these days, but it still happens
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Joementum posted:Mathematically, his chart would seem to imply that planes are guns, so you agree.
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CalmDownMate posted:I'm using it as an example of someone who is not credible gaining support due to saying something is going to happen for a long time and it not happening until it finally did you nitwit. assuming that they thought the fash candidate was somehow going to be "bad for business" (?), why would capital's solution to the problem be completely rebranding one of the two right wing political parties in the country instead of just telling the far-right one to ditch the guy with the stupid hair
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ComradeCosmobot posted:"We're losing a lot of people because of the Internet and we have to do something. We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas closing that Internet up in some way. I never thought about it, but I bet Bill Gates gets really irritated when politicians ask him to fix the internet or whatever in the same way I get irritated when my mom asks me to fix her printer because I have Red Hat certs.
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Mr. Wookums posted:I read it as everything that isn't a plane or gun are equal to eachother. But the contrapositive of that checks out. Edit: Take all things, suppose that the set that aren't guns is the same as the set that aren't planes. This implies that what's leftover for both is the same thus guns = planes.
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Why does the Western Hemisphere get planes and the Eastern Hemisphere get guns? Shouldn't it be the other way around? You can't defend your home and your family with a plane.
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Logikv9 posted:Why does the Western Hemisphere get planes and the Eastern Hemisphere get guns? Shouldn't it be the other way around? You can, but just once.
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Combed Thunderclap posted:COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU THIS HOLIDAY SEASON Carly Fiorina is a small lump of toxic substance that America should have no use for in TYOOL 2015. This checks out.
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When Donald Trump becomes President we will only have ourselves to blame for our radical religious fundamentalism.
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Logikv9 posted:Why does the Western Hemisphere get planes and the Eastern Hemisphere get guns? Shouldn't it be the other way around? i think you'll find that the highly paid* military analysts over here disagree *by lockheed martin
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SavageBastard posted:When Donald Trump becomes President we will only have ourselves to blame for our radical religious fundamentalism. Conservatives are even more delusional about the state of the race than libs.
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zoux posted:Maybe, but I'm not giving creedence to such claims given how often they've been made in the past. Yes eventually the political landscape will change, as it must, and the Tea Party will go away or change into something different. This is not a prediction one should get credit for. I don't think its the Tea Party who will go away. The business guys will just cut back on their funding, or try to turn the Democrats into the Republican party they were hoping to create. A Trump or Cruz nominee makes it very clear to the business wing that they are not going to get an electable candidate for the White House any time soon. 2012 gave us Romney as the nominee. Things got a little bit nuts, but in the end, the GOP were able to push all the crazy back in the box before the general election. If the party is not able to do that anymore, I don't see why a many of the single issue donors would stick around and enable an even crazier field next time around.
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Joementum posted:Mathematically, his chart would seem to imply that planes are guns, so you agree. um no it clearly states that not planes are equivalent to not guns it is not supported to conclude that planes are guns
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UberJew posted:we did Yet again sending American jobs overseas.
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TyrantWD posted:I don't think its the Tea Party who will go away. The business guys will just cut back on their funding, or try to turn the Democrats into the Republican party they were hoping to create. A Trump or Cruz nominee makes it very clear to the business wing that they are not going to get an electable candidate for the White House any time soon. SuperPACs and billionaire donors sponsoring vanity candidates have seriously blunted the donor base that traditionally influences primaries. We live in a country where a police officer could raise a million dollars in a day for executing an unarmed black kids, the old conventional wisdom about donor bases and fundraising are obsolete.
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crazy cloud posted:um no Correct, Schumer is saying: If not plane then not gun. That does not imply: if plane then gun. Clearly we do not appreciate the profundity of his statement.
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crazy cloud posted:um no The contrapositive of "not planes = not guns" is "guns = planes".
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